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There's a sad secret that too many smart, busy, successful girls share. They feel out of control with their eating or the number on the scale (or both) and they're irritated that they can't get a grip on it. Beyond feeling frustrated, many also feel embarrassed or overwhelmed.
Overeating struggles are reasonably common when you live a busy, high- power life, but most who are experiencing them feel alone and ashamed. Successful girls may banter at lunch about health and weight and calories, but they do not frequently talk brazenly about emotional eating or feeling out of control with food.
I've talked to many executives execs, and even successful coaches and leaders who share that they typically smile and pretend they don't really care about the extra pounds or their eating. They hide disappointment that they can't cause effects in this one area, when on the inside, it's eroding their confidence and taking up way too much energy.
Overeating and emotional eating are gigantic problems for a lot of busy women. For many , turning to food goes side by side with a very tight agenda, stress, and never feeling like you have sufficient time. And unfortunately , too often, when smart high-achievers attempt to try a change, they fall prey to one or two mistakes that have a tendency to keep them stuck.
Here are three places that smart women get stuck when talking of emotional eating, overeating, weightloss, and making peace with food:
High-achievers often work harder rather than smarter. If you are someone that is used to taking on gigantic projects and making results happen, than you aren't terrified of a little bit of hard work. When you fail at something, it could be routine to think that next time you just need to apply more effort, hit it harder, or have more discipline. The issue is, this only works if your system or route to achievement is an effective one. The great majority of people wrestling with overeating and emotional eating stay stuck because their approach isn't effective. Pushing harder in the wrong direction only leads to disappointment, exhaustion, and failure.
Successful women frequently feel self-conscious or embarrassed about struggles with food and overeating so they try alone. This becomes more likely if you're also telling yourself you just are not working tirelessly enough or don't have enough discipline. The sweet truth is that rather frequently, a fresh perspective and a new and better approach can change a lot-and it nearly always needs less force and difficult work than you were probably applying before.
Successful busy women bite off a lot. You could have achieved what you have due to your capability to think and act huge. Never-the- less (and particularly when your life is busy), change is more successful when you take tiny, do-able steps. This is incredibly hard to feel happy with, in the short run, if you are used to moving mountains. Nonetheless in the long run, your new habits and strategies are likely to stick when you make changes in digestible slices and permit yourself to change as you go along.
Overeating struggles are reasonably common when you live a busy, high- power life, but most who are experiencing them feel alone and ashamed. Successful girls may banter at lunch about health and weight and calories, but they do not frequently talk brazenly about emotional eating or feeling out of control with food.
I've talked to many executives execs, and even successful coaches and leaders who share that they typically smile and pretend they don't really care about the extra pounds or their eating. They hide disappointment that they can't cause effects in this one area, when on the inside, it's eroding their confidence and taking up way too much energy.
Overeating and emotional eating are gigantic problems for a lot of busy women. For many , turning to food goes side by side with a very tight agenda, stress, and never feeling like you have sufficient time. And unfortunately , too often, when smart high-achievers attempt to try a change, they fall prey to one or two mistakes that have a tendency to keep them stuck.
Here are three places that smart women get stuck when talking of emotional eating, overeating, weightloss, and making peace with food:
High-achievers often work harder rather than smarter. If you are someone that is used to taking on gigantic projects and making results happen, than you aren't terrified of a little bit of hard work. When you fail at something, it could be routine to think that next time you just need to apply more effort, hit it harder, or have more discipline. The issue is, this only works if your system or route to achievement is an effective one. The great majority of people wrestling with overeating and emotional eating stay stuck because their approach isn't effective. Pushing harder in the wrong direction only leads to disappointment, exhaustion, and failure.
Successful women frequently feel self-conscious or embarrassed about struggles with food and overeating so they try alone. This becomes more likely if you're also telling yourself you just are not working tirelessly enough or don't have enough discipline. The sweet truth is that rather frequently, a fresh perspective and a new and better approach can change a lot-and it nearly always needs less force and difficult work than you were probably applying before.
Successful busy women bite off a lot. You could have achieved what you have due to your capability to think and act huge. Never-the- less (and particularly when your life is busy), change is more successful when you take tiny, do-able steps. This is incredibly hard to feel happy with, in the short run, if you are used to moving mountains. Nonetheless in the long run, your new habits and strategies are likely to stick when you make changes in digestible slices and permit yourself to change as you go along.
About the Author:
Dr. Melissa McCreery works with high achieving women to help them invest in more self-care and stop overeating. Learn more at http://toomuchonherplate.com
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